Hiive, a startup that offers a marketplace for secondary shares in private tech companies, has raised $4.2 million in funding. The Vancouver-based company, founded in 2021, enables the purchase and sale of stakes in pre-IPO, venture-backed companies. Hiive, led by Sim Desai, formerly of secondaries broker Setter Capital, wants to provide a marketplace where an array of buyers and sellers can make trades. "We saw this market growing exponentially after 2021 and thought there must be an opportunity to centralize this rapidly growing market," Desai told Insider. Hiive's $4.2 million funding was led by Uncorrelated Ventures, alongside Splash Capital, Harmony Venture Partners, Hack VC, and Agmen Capital.

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Persons: Sim Desai, Desai, we've, it's, Hack Organizations: Capital, Splash Capital, Harmony Venture Partners, Agmen Locations: Vancouver